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* U.S. awaits Iranian elections for
signs of change
* Students under the death threat
* Iranian goes on trial for spying in Germany
* Iran denies selling Scud missiles to DR Congo
* Iran condemns killing of Algerian FIS leader
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* Appeal court upholds death sentences
* United States seeks consular visits to Iran
* Court hands down jail term
* Accused Jews 'may be freed'
* Thousands rally in Tehran on anniversary
of dissidents' murders
* Hardliners warn of more murders
* Defiant cleric shakes Iran establishment
* Khamenei backs reformist government but ...
* Revolutionary guards kill 17 Afghan drug smugglers
* Afghan-Iran border reopened after one-year closure
* UN asks for "fair" trial for Iranian Jews
* U.S. saw Shah's Khomeini mistake in mid-60s
* Reformist clergy resist pre-poll call for unity by conservatives
* Interior minister promises "healthy"
elections in February
* Two armed robbers sentenced to amputations
* Rival clerics hold meeting; make little headway
* British MP voices concern over situation
of Bahais in Iran
* Moderate culture minister "not optimistic" over
Nuri verdict
* Khamenei Strongly Rejects Ties With U.S.
* Iran agrees to reopen border with Afghanistan: repor
* Former interior minister to start newspaper
* Khatami urges high turnout in Iran polls
* Bomb in Mashhad blamed on killers of intellectuals
* Montazeri calls for freedom from house arrest: paper
* Shamsolvaezin freed on bail
* Abdollah Nouri to submit defence to anti-Islamic charges
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Wednesday
November 24, 1999
* U.S. awaits Iranian elections for signs of change
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is looking forward to next
February's parliamentary elections in Iran for signs of change in Iranian
policy, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said on Wednesday ... FULL
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* Students under the death threat
November 23, (Iranian Human Rights Working Group) -- According to reports
in the press, three of the people arrested after the July unrest at university
campuses in Iran are still facing the death sentence ... The Iranian Human
Rights Working Group is gravely concerned about the fate of these students
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* Iranian goes on trial for spying in Germany
BERLIN, Nov 24 (AFP) - An Iranian suspected of spying went on trial
in Berlin Wednesday in a case the German press said could decide the fate
of a German businessmen currently imprisoned in Iran. Hamid Khorsand,
37, is charged with spying since 1995 on Iranian opposition figures in
Germany for the Iranian information and security ministry ... FULL TEXT
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* Iran denies selling Scud missiles to DR Congo
RETORIA, Nov 24 (AFP) - The Iranian government "categorically denies"
a report that it has sold Scud missiles to the Democratic Republic of Congo
(DRC), a spokesman for the Iranian embassy said here Wednesday. "The
matter is denied categorically," an embassy spokesman, who would not
be named, told AFP ... FULL
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* Iran condemns killing of Algerian FIS leader
TEHRAN, Nov 24 (AFP) - Iran's foreign ministry spokesman expressed "regret
and outrage" over the murder of Abdelkader Hachani, a leader of the
banned Islamic Salvation Front (FIS), the official IRNA news agency reported
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Tuesday
November 23, 1999
* Appeal court upholds death sentences
November 23, (BBC) -- The Iranian appeal court has reportedly upheld
death sentences on three alleged ringleaders of the violent unrest which
swept Tehran in the summer. Another alleged instigator of the disturbances
is said to have been acquitted on the grounds of insanity. A revolutionary
court had sentenced the four to death in September for their role in two
days of riots that followed a wave of pro-democracy demonstrations in July
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* United States seeks consular visits to Iran
WASHINGTON, Nov 23 (Reuters) - The United States wants reciprocity from
Iran on visits to Iran by U.S. consular and other officials, the U.S. State
Department said on Tuesday. But it denied it had proposed basing American
officials in Tehran permanently at the office looking after U.S. interests
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* Court hands down jail term to fourth person over "blasphemous"
play
TEHRAN, Nov 23 (AFP) - An Iranian press court handed down a four-month
jail sentence Tuesday to a student charged with publishing an allegedly
blasphemous play in a university magazine, judicial sources said. Hamed
Ahangari became the fourth person to wind up with a prison sentence over
the play, which outraged conservatives by appearing to mock the belief
of Iran's Shiite Muslims in a "hidden" imam who will return to
usher in an age of justice ... FULL
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* Accused Jews 'may be freed'
November 23, (AFP) -- The head of Iran's Revolutionary Court, Gholamhossein
Rahbarpour, has said some of 13 Iranian Jews charged with spying for Israel
may be freed in the national interest ... FULL
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* Thousands rally in Tehran on anniversary of dissidents' murders
TEHRAN, Nov 21 (AFP) - Thousands of Iranians held a rally here Sunday
in memory of a pro-nationalist couple slain last year during a string of
murders of leading dissidents that authorities blamed on rogue members
of the secret police ... FULL
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* Hardliners warn of more murders
TEHRAN, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Members of a shadowy Iranian group have threatened
to resume their campaign of violence, including the murder of dissidents,
the leading reformist daily Khordad reported on Monday ... FULL
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* Defiant cleric shakes Iran establishment
TEHRAN, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Iranian dissident theologian Abdollah Nouri
says duty to God and country drove him to risk both his liberty and his
immediate political future in a landmark challenge to Iran's conservative
establishment. Sitting serenely in his office, Nouri told Reuters in an
interview he was indifferent to his likely jail sentence ... FULL
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* Khamenei backs reformist government but also backs conservative
court
TEHRAN, Nov 22 (AFP) - Iran's spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
expressed support Monday for the reformist government of President Mohammad
Khatami, but defended a conservative court which has been trying one of
Khatami's close allies ... FULL
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* Revolutionary guards kill 17 Afghan drug smugglers & free 5
hostages: press
TEHRAN, Nov 21 (AFP) - Iranian revolutionary guards killed 17 Afghan
drug smugglers and freed five hostages in two separate clashes in northeast
Iran's Khorasan province, press reports said Sunday ... FULL
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* Afghan-Iran border reopened after one-year closure
ISLAMABAD, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Afghanistan's ruling Taleban movement
declared the country's border with Iran formally reopened for trade on
Sunday after more than a year's closure amid signs of a thaw between the
two tense neighbours ... FULL
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Friday
November 19, 1999
* UN asks for "fair" trial for Iranian Jews
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 19 (AFP) - The United Nations (UN) General Assembly
has asked Iran to guarantee a "fair and transparent trial" for
the 13 Iranian Jews accused by Tehran of spying. The UN General Assembly
Thursday evening adopted a resolution condemning human rights violations
alleged to have perpetrated by Iran, as reported by the delegates of several
European nations and the United States ... FULL
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* U.S. saw Shah's Khomeini mistake in mid-60s
WASHINGTON, Nov 18 (Reuters) - U.S. State Department analysts understood
that the Shah of Iran had mishandled the Islamic opposition as early as
1965, 14 years before the revolution led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini,
according to classified documents released on Thursday ... FULL
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* Reformist clergy resist pre-poll call for unity by conservatives
TEHRAN, Nov 18 (AFP) - The main religious faction backing Iran's reformist
President Mohammad Khatami resisted Thursday a call for "unity and
understanding" among the powerful clergy from its conservative counterpart
ahead of vital elections, the official IRNA news agency reported ... FULL TEXT
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* Interior minister promises "healthy" elections in February
TEHRAN, Nov 19 (AFP) - Interior Minister Abdolvahed Musavi Lari has
promised to do all he can to ensure that next year's parliamentary elections
will be "healthy," the official IRNA news agency reported Friday
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* Two armed robbers sentenced to hand, foot amputations, lashes and
prison
TEHRAN, Nov 18 (AFP) - Two convicted armed robbers have been sentenced
by a revolutionary court in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz to have
the right hand and left foot of each amputated, the Kayhan paper reported
Thursday ... FULL
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Thursday
November 18, 1999
* Rival clerics hold meeting; make little headway
TEHRAN, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Iran's rival clerical factions held a reconciliation
meeting under tight security on Thursday in an attempt to ease political
tensions ahead of next year's parliamentary polls. The discussion at a
downtown mosque, the second of its kind in recent weeks, was held at the
initiative of the Society of Militant Clergy, the leading group of conservative
clerics ... FULL
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* Baha'is have rights too
Baha'is have rights too... - President Khatami
November 1999, (Iranian Human Rights
Working Group) -- President Khatami's pronouncement, in his Paris press
conference on Friday 29th October, on the plight of Baha'is in Iran is
by far the most encouraging statement made by an Iranian high official
of the Islamic Republic in this regard since the demise of the provisional
government of Mehdi Bazargan in 1979. However, his statement fell far short
of acknowledging the basic rights to religious freedom enshrined in Article
18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to which Iran is a state
signatory ... FULL
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* British MP voices concern over situation of Bahais in Iran
TEHRAN, Nov 18 (AFP) - A member of a visiting British parliamentary
delegation has warned the situation of adherents of the Bahai faith in
Iran could be an "obstacle" for improved Tehran-London ties,
a press report said Thursday ... FULL
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* Khamenei Strongly Rejects Ties With U.S.
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has
strongly rejected ties with the United States, despite increasing calls
by reformers for a review of Tehran's policy toward Washington, newspapers
said Thursday. ``Petty and weak individuals want to subject the Iranian
nation to the undignified state of some countries which are American protectorates,''
the daily Arya quoted Khamenei as saying Wednesday ... FULL
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* Iran agrees to reopen border with Afghanistan: report
ISLAMABAD, Nov 18 (AFP) - Iran has agreed to reopen its border with
Afghanistan after several days of talks between traders of the two countries,
a Pakistan-based news agency said. No independent confirmation was immediately
available ... FULL
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